CHRISTOPHER LOCK

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Christopher Lock is a computer musician, creative programmer, and film composer. He creates densely textural electronic music which slowly mutates and morphs over time and is often saturated with dark imagery or phantasmagoria.

Through out his education Christopher has been fortunate to study with such musical visionaries as Esperanza Spalding, Meredith Monk, Vijay Iyer, Claire Chase, Thomas Dolby, Chaya Czernowin, Hans Tutschku.

Christopher has released his music on labels such as Geryon (NYC) and Idolatrous Records (Cambridge). He has worked with world renowned ensembles such as Ensemble Recherche, Tak Ensemble, Ensemble WasteLAnd, Switch~ Ensemble, Elision Ensemble, Line Upon Line, and Wet Ink.

Christopher is an active composer of film music and his music has been featured in film festivals around the world. In January of 2022 Christopher composed original music for Giovanna Molina's Deer Girl which was an official selection for the Sundance Institute's Ignite x Adobe Fellowship.

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chris.lock.music@gmail.com


Research Interests:


- Music Software Development, AI, Data Science, Creative Hacking

- Drone Music, Electroacoustic Composition

- Digital Humanities, Creative Coding, New Media Art Practices

- Deep Listening (Pauline Oliveros), specifically as applied to electronic drone and techno music

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"Slow, poetic energy, drenched in beauty" - Chaya Czernowin

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